Research and Development in the Institute of Education

The Institute of Education provides research-based and contemporary pre-service training for teachers, special education teachers, speech therapists, and social pedagogues. There is also an extensive in-service training programme for teachers, heads of schools, and university teaching staff.

Our main fields of research:

  • Development of teachers' professional competence
  • Relations between teacher’s professional development and students’ achievement and general competencies at different ages
  • Teaching practices and beliefs of teachers and academic staff
  • Teacher's agency
  • Motivation
  • Emotions
  • Self-regulation skills
  • Learning competence
  • Communication competence
  • Socio-emotional skills
  • Mathematics competence
  • Nature competence
  • Entrepreneurship competence
  • Inquiry-based learning and problem solving in web-based learning environments
  • Digital competencies
  • Responsible research and innovation
  • Algorithmic thinking
  • Virtual and augmented reality
  • Development of instruments for assessing the progress of students with special educational needs
  • Development of research-based learning materials and teachers’ guidelines for working with students with special needs
  • Indications of speech and language disorders
  • Development of diagnostics and therapies

 

The publications of our institute's employees are available in the Estonian Research Information System ETIS and in the database of Google Scholar.

The institute's staff have participated in international development projects that have focused on web-based inquiry learning environments and learning analytics in e-assessment.

The Institute of Education co-ordinates the work of Pedagogicum – a consortium established by all faculties of the university for the co-ordination and joint development of curricula, standards and practice in teacher training, and co-ordination of related development projects.

In co-operation with Tallinn University, the institute publishes the Estonian Journal of Education – an open access peer-reviewed journal with an international editorial board.

The institute maintains strong links with the Faculty of Science and Technology in research and development projects. 

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